Folding chair



(No Model.)

G. D. BAILY.

:F'OJIDIITG GHAIR- No. 600,764. Patented Mar. 15, 1898.

INVENTOR rrn GEORGE D. BAILY, OF SPICELAND, INDIANA.

FOLDING CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,764, dated March15, 1898.

Application filed April 19, I897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. BAILY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Spiceland, in the county of Henry and State of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Chairs; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to certain improvements in the construction offolding chairs; and the object is to provide a chair which shall besimple, convenient, and comparatively inexpensive of construction.

To these ends the novelty consists in the construction, combination, andarrangement of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate thesame parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved folding chair. Fig. 2 isan enlarged view of the sheet-metal guide-plate and the slidingguide-bolt. Fig. 3 is a modification of the same, showing theguide-plate and stop formed of an integral casting.

1 represents the back of the chair, provided with the continuousparallel legs 2 2, and 3 is the seat, hinged in the usual manner to theback and having the usual hinged front legs 4 4, which extend backwardand cross the rear legs 2 2.

5 5 represent the guide-bolts which are fixed in the sides of the rearlegs 2 2, and they are provided with flat or disk-shaped heads 6 6,which engage the flanges 7 7, formed on the sides of the sheet-metalguide-plates 8 8, which are permanently fixed to the contiguous sides ofthe front legs 4 4 by rivets 9 9.

10 represents the stop or limit bolts, fixed in the upper ends of theguide-plates and in Serial No. 632,718. (No model.)

the path of the guide-bolts 5 5 to support the seat in a horizontalposition when the chair is in use; The stop or limit bolt 10 may befixed at any convenient point on the legs 4 4 and in the path of theguide-plates 8 8, so that when the chair is extended the legs 2 2 willabut against the bolts 1O 10 and sustain the chair in proper positionfor use.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 I have shown a web 12 cast integralwith the guideplate and which takes the place of the stop or limit bolt10. i

Although I have specifically described the construction and relativearrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire tobe confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made asclearly fall within the scope of my invention without departing from thespirit thereof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

An improved folding chair comprising the legs 2 2, the guide-bolts 5 5fixed in said legs and formed with the integral disk-shaped heads 6 6,in combination with the cross-legs 4 4, guide-plates 8 8 comprising abody portion secured to said legs, and provided with integraloppositely-disposed parallel flanges 7 7 bent outwardly from said bodyportion and inwardly toward each other and forming a guideway, and astop device secured to and projecting from said body portion of theplate between said flanges at the upper end of the guideway'in the pathof the heads of the bolts 5 5', substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE D. BAILY.

Witnesses:

HERBERT T. BAILY, EDWIN B. RATOLIFF.

